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  • Madness and society in Britain

  • George Ikkos, Nick Bouras, Peter Tyrer
  • Journal:
    BJPsych Bulletin / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / June 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 August 2022, pp. 152-156
    Print publication:
    June 2023
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  • The fiftieth anniversary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the publication of a detailed multidisciplinary social history of British psychiatry and mental health in recent decades have offered an opportunity to take a helicopter view and reflect on the relation between psychiatry and changing British society. We argue that the time has come to move on from the rhetoric of deinstitutionalisation and community mental healthcare to lead public debate and advocacy for the needs of the mentally ill in the new era of ‘meta-community psychiatry and mental healthcare’. We need to respond effectively to the increasing awareness of mental health problems across society, aiming for a pluralist, integrated and well-funded reform led by joint professional and patient interests which could be unstoppable if we all work together.